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The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.

Sharon Salzberg

Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.
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Forgiveness Hurt People
Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.
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Feeling Freedom Happiness
Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see that releasing our grip on anger and resentment can actually be an act of self-compassion.
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Anger Compassion Feeling Honesty Ourselves Pain View
The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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Imagination Love Place Start
We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.
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Destruction Different Old Young
While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.
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End Happiness Mind Right
You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.
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Love Person Self Love Worth
We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
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Fight Philosophy
Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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Difficult Effort Perseverance Willing
Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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Existence Love Philosophy
Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.
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Life Ourselves Skill Transformation
over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind.
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Forget Kindness Love Ourselves Time Unity
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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Compassion Home Joy Love Ourselves
Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.
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Ability Connection Need Ourselves
We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.
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Freedom Ourselves Story True Love
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Compassion Improvement Patience Power

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